Comparative Studies

a - Convergence or Divergence?
b -Changing Structures of Inequality
c - Leviathan Transformed

published in the CCSC series

a - Convergence or Divergence?

Reference

Langlois S., Caplow Th., Mendras H. and Glatzer W. (eds), 1994, Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Recent Social Trends in Industrial Societies, Montreal and Frankfurt: McGill-Queen's University Press/Campus Verlag.

Contents

1. Introduction. Convergence or Divergence?
by Theodore Caplow and Henri Mendras

2. Is There a Single Pattern of Social Evolution?
by Yannick Lemel and John Modell

3. Differing Levels of Low Fertility
by Gary Caldwell, Karin Stiehr, John Modell and Salustiano Del Campo

4. Employment and Labor-Market Change: Toward Two Models of Growth
by Heinz-Herbert Noll and Simon Langlois

5. The Changing Bonds of Kinship: Parents and Adult Children
by Howard M. Bahr, Jean-Hugues Déchaux and Karin Stiehr

6. Trends in Religion and Secularization
by Bruce A. Chadwick, Madeleine Gauthier, Louis Hourmant and Barbara Wörndl

7. The Reduction of Personal Authority
by Theodore Caplow

8. Conflicts and Conflict Regulation
by Karl-Otto Hondrich and Theodore Caplow

9. Institutionalization Tendencies in the Ecological Movements
by Guy Fréchet and Barbara Wörndl

10. Comparative Structural Analysis of Social Change in France and in Quebec
by Michel Forsé and Simon Langlois

11. Lexicon
by Renata Hornung-Drauss

b - Changing Structures of Inequality: A Comparative Perspective

Reference

Lemel Yannick and Noll Heinz Herbert (eds), 2002, Changing Structures of Inequality: A Comparative Perspective, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Contents

1. Introduction
H.-H. Noll, Y. Lemel

Part I: National Traditions

2. Social Stratification. The Distinctiveness of French Research
Y. Lemel

3. Class, Stratification and Beyond: The German Case
H.-H. Noll

4. Empirical Studies on Social Stratification in Quebec and Canada
S. Langlois

5. Social Stratification and Inequalities in Spain: The State of the Art
S. del Campo

6. Research on Class in the United States
P. Kingston

7. Some Problems with the Comparative Charting of Trends in Inequality
T. Caplow

Part II: Substantial Analyses

8. The Distribution of Income and Wealth in European and North-American Societies
W. Glatzer, R. Hauser

9. Educational Inequalities: Distribution of Knowledge, Social Origins and Social Outcomes
L. Chauvel

10. Status Consistency Trends of Occupational, Educational and Economic Position in France, Germany and the USA
M. Forsé, Y. Lemel

11. International Migration and Inequality
H. Bahr, M. Bös, G. Caldwell, L. Alipranti

12. Gender Inequality in Five Modern Societies
D. Lemieux, M. Möhle

13. Inequality: The Structuring Effect of Social Class in Four Societies
P. Kingston, S. Langlois, Y. Lemel, H.-H. Noll

14. Conclusions
Y. Lemel, H.-H. Noll

c - Leviathan Transformed: Seven National States in the New Century

Reference

Caplow Theodore (Ed.), 2002, Leviathan Transformed: Seven National States in the New Century, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Contents

Introduction

1. Failing state/successful society in Italy
A. Martinelli

2. The German state in comparative perspective in the year 2000
K.-O. Hondrich

3. Six aspects of the Spanish state
S. Del Campo

4. The current performance of the American state
T. Caplow

5. The contemporary Canadian state: redefining a social and political union
S. Langlois

6. Changing Bulgaria
N. Genov

7. The French state comes of age
H. Mendras

Concluding remarks
T. Caplow

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